22The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
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And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. …
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-31)That it is an intelligent and divine person that here speaks seems very plain, and that it is not meant of a mere essential property of the divine nature, for Wisdom here has personal properties and actions; and that intelligent divine person can be no other than the Son of God himself, to whom the principal things here spoken of wisdom are attributed in other scriptures, and we must explain scrip…
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